Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1903, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED RIVER BECOMES SEA Platte River Overflows and Floods Large Rection of Oity of Fremont. LOUP RIVER IS ALSO ON RAMPAGE | Oolumbus Btream Sweeps Over Banks fo| Mile and Half. RAGING FLOOD DROWNS STANTON GIRL Brother Escapes on Timbers Floating Duwn Union Creek. TURBULENT WATERS SURROUND FENDER Weather Bureau Issues Warnin pecially to Ohlo and Lower Mis. souri Valleys a: Te Danger in East and | FREMONT, Neb., March 9.—(Special Tel- | gram.)—An ice gorge formed in the Platte about two miles west of here tonight and | nearly all of the city south of the Union Pacific tracks is flooded. The water rose very rapldly and without much warning. It started about 8 o'clock, a small stream running east on South street At 11:30 It had reached the tracks on H street and on other North and South streets was only a block away and was not rising much. It flooded all cellars except a few on higher ground and in a good many places Was & foot deep on the first floor. The basement of the West Side school was filled and the people driven out of the small houses In the vicinity. In several homes there were sick people who were with some diffculty tcken to places of safety. There was considerable excitement. One family had gone to bod | 8nd the first they knew of the flood was by the sound of the water in the room. People could be seen with lanterns taking out their horses and cows. One woman waded through a couple of feet of water with halt | a dozen chickens {n her arms, whils chairs and other movables were floating around in the house. Cattls realtsed their donger and their frightened bellowing could be heard all through the flooded district. A considerable part of Inglewood, souh of the city limits, is under wa There | is a strong curremt from the west, with blocks of floating ice running through it. The condition at the packing house can- not be definitely learned, but at § c'clock the water was within 200 feet of it and rast be nearly to the yards. Two spans of the wagon bridge acr the Platte are reported out and the eatire bridge in danger. About 9 o'clock it was thought the flood was at its height, but later it began to rise agaln. The houses flooded are nerrly all those occupled by the poorer class of people and their loss will be very haavy. ‘The bright moonlight helped people greatly in moving thelr goods. The river Las been . risiog slowly all day. This evening atout 4:50 it began to back up east of the morth end of the bridge and soon a big stream _wag running up the road. It came so fast that a good many people who w.re on higher ground had to wade to get cut. The Jast team to carry dymamite to the bridge had a olose call. The driver had to swim his horses for a bundred yarls, ~here twenty minutes before the water was mot over two teet deep. Loup Out of Its Banks. COLUMBUS, Neb., March 9.—Three hun- dred families llving in Columbus have been &mpelled to leave their homes and seck higher ground. The Loup river at this point is more than & mile and one-half wide. The Union Pacific tracks for that dis- tance from Columbus to the big bridge over the Loup are under ter and not being used. Traffic has been entirely suspended. The bridge is considered safe. Ice gorges are forming and breaking eontinually. Ice Gorge in Republican. SUPERIOR, Neb., March 9.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The two big iron bridges over the Republican river at this place are in im- minent danger of belng swept away. The river is out of its banks and ls full of floating ice. The ice guards on the west bridge are gone and cakes of ice fifty to sixty feet square are crashing against the piers. The guards on the east bridge are aleo gone and the bridge has been knocked two feet out of line. One gorge formed and broke, but it looks s though apother is forming. The river is steadily rising. The bridge at Hardy, Neb., was swept away yesterday, Girl Drowned at Stanton. STANTON, Neb., March 9.—Minnle -and William Doetsch were returning home last might from a call at & neighbor's house aud were caught in the flood of Union creek, a tributary of the Elkborn river. Miss Doetsch was drowned. The boy escaped by clinging to a plece of floating debris that struck him he fell. Pender is Isolated. PENDER, Neb., March 9.—(Spectal Tele- gramn.)—Pender tonight is entirely sur- Tounded by water caused by the overfiow of the Logan river. All the houses on the lowlands are partially submerged, the oc- cupants fleeing to the higher ground for safety. Old residents of the country say this is the worst food that has ever been known here. Great dawage will be done | to the bridges on the bottoms. Some los .| of stock is already reported. The farmers are entirely cuf off from the town. Schools | are closed until the waters subside. Re- | ports from the north say another rise may be expected before morning. Part of Bix SCHUYLER. Telegram.)—When the ice gorge went out of the Platte river here today it took along about 500 feet of the county wagon bridge. Six hundred feet of the bridge is left stand- ing in an apparently undamaged condition. Several parties from the other side of the river were bt in town and will have to lay over here several days, according to present apoearances. The B. & M. railroad bridge was also damaged considerably. The lcebreakers were knocked out, and several piles broken off, so as to let the track | sag out of alignment and prevent trains| trom crossing. During the winter the county commissilners had expended con- siderable money In making gemeral repairs on the wagon bridge, which was swept y. CENTRAL CITY, Neb., Mareh 9.—(Spe- clal)—Thick ice and warm weather is ausing much fear of loss of Platte river oridges when the ice goes out. Ducks and §oese are coming o at a ¥ y rate. ST. PAUL, Neb, March 9.—(Special)— The rivers of Howard county are on the rampage. Last night the high water, ac- jording to reports just coming ln, took 2t the bridges over the Middle Loup at JU | teans | Brayton had NE 19, 1871. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, M RCH 10, 1903—-TEN MANY MATTERS ARE ADJUSTED Turkey Finally Co teo Various CONSTANTINOPLE, March 9. — The United States legation has finally obtained official recognition of the examinations at the American Medical college, Beyreuth, on the £ | lines as the French examination and’ gettlement of the long-pen qmmx g the rights of the wives and chilt ‘menians, who have be- #oricans, to leave the come paturks emplre They are now able and fathers in the Ut ites vithout hindrance. The council Gs inisters has agreed to recognize the American edu tional, charitable and religious establish- ments and they are now awaiting imperial approval It {s expected that authority will shortly be given to the American archaelogist, Mr. Banks, to undertake excavations at Tel- abraham, Mesopotamia, the supposed site of the tomb of Abraham. Mr. Banks has been waiting here for this permission for three yeas WASHINGTON, March 9.—The State de- partment has not been fully advised of the concessions obtained from the Turklsh heir husbands government by Minister Fieishmann as re. | ported from Comstantinople. The Turkish government has up to this time declined to recognize the Amerfean medical diplomas or even those issued to grad- uates from American institutions in Tur- key. a fact which naturally greatly dimin- ished thelr usefulness. A more important concession from a humanitarian point is that respecting the wives and children of paturalized Amer- The Turkish government has here- tofore held that the wife of a Turkish citizen who {s naturalized in America does not by that act become herself an Amer- ican International law admits the right of the woman to share the conditions of her hus- band, and, while our government has not | set up the claim that under our own laws the wife becomes naturalized by the hus- | band’s act, yet it has contended that under the prineiple of international law above referrcd to the Turkish government was not justified in detaining these women in Turkey. As for the children, even under our own laws they could not be claimed as Amer- fean citizens unless they were actually resident in America when their father was naturalized, therefore the concession of the Turkish government on these points is considerable The undertaking to recognize the Amer- ican educational, charitable and religious establishments will, it is sald, greatls en- large their usefulness and add much to | their security, for there will hereafter be Do question of their right to claim full military protection from the Turkish gov- ernment if they are threatened in times of riot. BRITAN'S BULWARK GROWS LONDON, March 9.—The British navy es- timates for~1903-04, lesued this evening, provide for an expenditure of $179,184,205, an increase of $16,010,000, of which $1 180,000 will be devoted to ship bullding and repairs. The maintentance estimates provide for 127,00 officers and men, an increase of 4,600. The program for the year includes three new battleships, four armored crulsers, three protected crulsers, scouts, fifteen torpedo boat destroyers, ten torpedo boats, two coast guard cruisers, a river gunboat and an admiralty yacht In an explanatory statement Lord Sel- | borne, first lord of the admiraity, an- nounces the formation of a mew squadron, to be known as the South Atlantic squa ron. It will serve on the west coast of Africa and along the southeast coast of America, with bases at Gibraltar and Sierra Leone. It is also stated that the trials of oil fuel on British warships bave been in- creasingly satisfatcory. POPE IS ABLE TO RECEIVE Action is Contradiction to Alarming Afloat Comeern. Health, ROME, March 9.—The pope this morn- ing received Cardinal Peraud, bishop of Autun, France, in audience, thus contra- dieting the alarming rumors which had again been eirculated regarding his health. As a result of the favorable report of Cardinal Satolli, prefect of the congrey tion of studies, the congregation of the propaganda has decided to propose to the pope that he appoint Monsignor Contay, former rector of the Catholic university at Washington, as bishop of Los Angeles, in succession to Right Rev. George Mont- gomery, recently appointed coadjutor arch- bishop of San Francisco. VESSEL HAS ROUGH VOYAGE Carpenter is Killed and Other Me: bers of Crew Badly Imjured by Storm. ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 9.—The steamer Ulunda, which arrived here yesterday even- ing from Liverpool, after s pa: twenty-one days, reported baving encoun- tered hurricane weather Carpenter Martsen was killed, Boatswain Cook bud his arm broken and Eingineer three fingers torn from one of bis hands during the storm. The steamer's engines were disabled, deck houses were torn away and it otherwise badly damaged. |BOXERS GATHERING POWER ture Villages, Dethrone Goverm. LONDON, March 10.—The Dafly Mail cor- respondent at Shanghal telegraphs that the rebellion in the Kwang-81 provinee fis spreading rapidly. Several villages have been captured and the government is prac- tically powerless. The pepular batred for the Christians, adds the correspondent, is displayed iv the Shantung province by the destruction of the churches kan Lawyer Nam OTTAWA, Out., March 9.—Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior, will be the British agent to prepare the Canadian ease for the Alaskan boundary commission. Empero BERLI) received President Francis' of the St. Louis Aposiiion 1o audieace al noos today. ece Francis. to be used as! o lasting | March 9.—Emperor William | BATHED 1IN BURNING OIL Tank Cars Explode, Scattering Blasing Fluid Ovor Eager Spectators, Tortared Vietims Flee Down Rallway Tracks Like Torches Vainly Striving to Extine uman guish the Flames. OLEAN, N. Y., March 9.—At least twenty-two persons were killed and a large number injured by an explosion of ofl near | here tonight | A freight traln on the Erfe, made up | principally of laden ofl cars, broke in two near this city about 9, the two sections came together with a crash and one of the tanks was demolished. Fire broke out almost fnstantly and the sky was lighted up for miles. Fire Spreads to Tanks. The flames communicated quickly with the other tank cars and three explosions followed each other in rapid succession. Sheots of flame shot out in all directions. Scores of spectators attracted by the con- | flagration were caught within the fire zone | and enveloped in flames. Men ard boys ran screaming down the tracks with their clothing ablaze. Others fell where they 8tood, overcome by the awful heat. Just how many were killed is not known, as many of the bodles were incinerated 7dney Fish, a prominent business man, returned from the scene of the fire at mid- night. He said: 1 was attracted by the blaze between 9:30 and 10 o'clock. When I w within a Quarter of a mile of the wrecked train there was a terrific explosion. Flame shot outward and upward f A great di: tance. [ saw several persons wh to run away drop on the rallway | They never ‘moved again. Others wh { been standing close to the wreckage were huried through the air for hundreds of e | The scene was awful. Half a_ dozen young boys ran down the tracks with their | clothing on fire. They resembled human | torches. I could hear their agonized | screams distincily from where I stood. | They ran some distance down the track and then threw themselves to the ground, | Broveling in the ditches in their frantic | efforts to extinguish the flames. Then they lay still, some of them unconscious, others dead. I do not know how many were killed, but I counted senty bodies before | T came away. Doctors at a Premiu; Word was sent at once to Olean police | headquarters by telephone. Every doctor and ambulance in the eity were summened. Grocery wagons and carriages of all kinds were pressed into service and everything | possible was done to bring the injured to | the hcepitals for treatment. At midnight the first batch of injured arrived at the hospital. They were four boys, terribly wounded, grcat paiches of flesh having been burned off and hanging iz shreds trom their bodies. By 1 o'clock twenty-two bodies had been taken from the wreckage. Some of them are burned beyond recognition, ouly the trunks and skulls remaining. RAILROAD MAKES MILLIONS Gould Reports Profita of $6,544,622 Earne? by Missourd Pactfic, ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 9.—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mis- sour! Pacific and Iron Mountain roads will be held here tomorrow. synopsis of the annual report to be sub- mitted by George Gould |, Actual mil operated ,648; gross earn- | Ings, $37,495,657; operating expenses, $25,- | 048,190: net carnings, $12,452497; net earnings | after deducting taxes and sundry charges $10.768,154. Added interest on_investmenis dividends on stock, etc., $2,422,139; net In come applicable to' interest on bonds and | | rentals of leased lines, $13.190.204; Interest on bonds and rentals of leased lines, $5,- 664,672; surplus | all_charges. $6,541,62. Total dividends de- | clared from surplus, $3.865.110. ! made from the income for the current year to pay in part for improvements planned for The necessity for developing and expand- necesaary the authorization of & new issue of bonds, to be secured by a first mortgage | on the property to be acquired with the roceeds of the bonds to be known as the River and Gulf divisions first mortgage. | The total amount of bonds authoriz-d to be issued under the mortgage is $0,000,000. SIAM TAKES HARVARD MAN King Legal Advisor American Halls of Lea in —The Transeript says: cannot be doubted that one and possibly two professors of the Harvard law school | have been selected for important positions in the royal court of Siam. One will become legal adviser to the king, a place of great influence and respon- sibllity, because the action of Siam in In- ternational questions depends on his ad- vice. Prot. Edward Henry Strobel Bemis, professor of international law, is named for the position. Prot. Strobel has bad much experience in diplomatic affairs and is considered an authority upon international law. He is a southerner.by birth and a northern man by education. He has been secretary of the United States legation at Madrid, third as- istant secretary of state in the second | Cleveland administration, minister to Ecu- ador and minister to Chile \ BEATEN BY RIVAL TRIBESMEN Chief Dick Washakie Gets Drunk and is Seriously Injured in A LANDER, Wyo., March 9.—(Special Tele- | gram.)—Dick Washakie, chief of the Sho- | 50 of the noted old chief who died last year, was found drunk by members of a rival faction of his tribe last night and it | 1s supposed they gave him a terrible beat- ing. He was found today In an uncon- scious condition. His head and body were bady cut and fears are entertained that he will die. Ever since the death of old Chief | Washakie a small band of Shoshones has resisted the rule of Dick Washakie and the latter bas frequently been threatemed with death. DOBLIN WANDERING MANIAC Turncoat bery Witness Loses Senses snd Will Geo to Asylu NEW YORK, March 9.—Philllp Dobiin, whose sensational volte fage in comnection with the charges of attempted bribery made by Representative Lessler, was found wan dering in Central park two days ago, and today declared insane. Tomorrow he will | be taken 10 & sanitarium &t Astoria, L L SCORE DIE AND MANY ARE MAIMED | 10 had | Following is a | income for the year over | An apnropriation 'of $1,000,000 has been | Ing of the Iron Mountain system has made | It has become public from authority which | shones on the Wind River reservatiop, and | COURT HITS SflLPERS HARD Isaues Injunction Rest in World's Falr Excur- on Tickets, ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 9.—In the cl | court today Judge Wood made permane | the temporary injunction granted st C | tober against Benmett Wasserman et al ticket scalpers, restraining them from buy ing or selling world's fair excursion tick ets. The temporary injunction was grauted at the instance of all the railroads entering St. Louis and was argued recently | case, that of the Wabash, was decided day. It was agreed by counsel that the decision in this case should be binding in the others While the suits were brought in the names of the rallroads, the world's fair took an active part in the prosecution, as | the railroads had fnaisted that without pro- tection against scalpers they could not af- ford to make low rates One | dealing in the non-transferable tickets, but claimed that the rallroads were in an un | lawtul pooling agreement and had no right to limit the sale of tickets. Both of these The scalpers did not deny that they were | RICHARDS CREATES A STIR| Governor of Wyoming Out in Interview Antagonistic to Roosevelt. OTHER MEN FROM STATENOT IN HARMONY | » Formally Present | « n the Federal Nebraska Senate Name of Charles J. Greene for a Position Bench, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—(Spectal Tel gram.)—The emphatic pronouncement of Governot De Forest Richards of Wyouing. made in the course of a lung special to the Washington Post trom Cheyenne, that not only Wyoming, but several western states, would send antagonistic delegations to the next republican national convention, “dele- gates which will the nomination of President caused widespread comment political eir- | cles here. The trend of Governor Rich- | Roosevel today throughout contentions were decided In favor of the rallroads, the court holding that the West ern Passenger assoclation was a lawful as- sociation in nowise conflicting with any state of federal statute, and that in consid- | eration of a reduced rate the railroads had | the power to mdke tickets non-transfer- rable. PLAN American FOR Malting Association Again Be Placed Upon Ttx Feet. REORGANIZATION NEW YORK, March 9.—A plan for the reorganization of the American Malting assoclation was announced today. The plan provides for the reduction of the | preferred stock from $14,400,000 to $10,000,- 000 and of the common from $14,500,000 to $10,000,000. The preferred stock fs to be entitled to | eumulative 4 per eent dividends until the | outstanding 6 per cent gold bonds have | been reduced from $3,861,000 to $3,000,000; thereafter at the rate of 5 per cent until the bonds shall have been reduced to | $2,000,000; after that at the rate of 6 per | cent untfl the redemption of the bonds, | and thereafter at the rate of 7 per cent. No dividends are to be pald upon the common stock until the preferred shall | bave received dividends as described. The holders of the new preferred stock | shall not elect a majority of the directors of the new company until 4 per cent shall | have been paid upon the common stock. | Only 35 per cent of the present preferred | |and 25 per cent of the existing common | are to be issued at once, the issue of the { remainder to be made in installments as the 6 per cent bonds are redeemed. BRYAN LAUGHS AT HILL Says New Yorker Tosses Coin to See Who Shall Seek Demo- ie Suffrages. TOLEDO, March 9.—W. J. Bryan was in- | terviewed today %w ques- tions. “1 think,” e said, “Mr. Hill is tossing {a pemny to see whether he or Judge | Parker will rin. The trouble with the plan |is that Hill uses so old a penny that he | does not know which side is head and | which is tail.” Speaking of the recent congressional ses | sion, he said “What congress has done is easily ascer tafned. Find out how much thers was Ja the treasury before the session began and | how much there is now. The wonder is | they did not take it all.” Mr. Bryan said: “The merits of the can- troversy between the company and its em- | ployes are overshadowed by the menace injuaction. Ths democrats have long been calling attention to the danger that lurks in this abuse of judicial power, but seems to take several make the people acquainted with a bad | principle.” |OPPORTUNITY FOR SPEED WAR | Milwaukee Mawes Break Which May Spread to Omi Territory. CHICAGO, March 9.—(Special Telegram.) -—Action taken by the St. Paul in placing In service a new fast mail train between the Twin Citles and Chicago bids fair to result in & speed war not only between the cities mentioned, but between Chicago and Omaha. The new train connects with the new mall train on the Great Northern from the north Pacific coast, and points along the coast are brought nearly six hours mearer Chicago. The new St. Paul train will leave St. Paul at 7:30 p. m. and will arrive in Chicago at 7 a. m., which is one hour and | twenty-five minutes faster than the mini- | mum time agreement cetween the cities. When the dispute over the time agree- | ment arose a year ago, owing to the North- western reducing the time of the Overland limited between Chicago and Omaha, the St. Paul officials gave notice that they | would no longer be bound by the agreement between Chicago and St. Paul, but would | teel fres to beat it at any time upon notice. BAPTISTS BATTLE IN CHURCH | Fire on Preacher, Whose Friends Re- turn Shots, One Man Dying. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 9.—As the result of a factional fight in the Mount Pleasant Baptist church, six miles from Johuston, S. C., one man was killed and three seri- | ously wounded. Recently the congregation became di- vided and ome faction forbade Rev. Kit | | Jones to preach last night. The other in- ed on bis preaching and the minister | t into the pulpit. As he announced | the bymn the opposing faction entered the | ehvreh and fired upon him. Two of his | triends were in the pulpit with him and | returned the fire. George Hammond was | shot dead and his three sous were seri- ously wounded. | PREPARING WARM RECEPTION Un CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mar>h 9.—The Union Pacific 1s preparing to resist a threatened attack by train robbers by sending an armed force on fleet borses to Rawlins, whence the location of the threatemed at. | following bold and | the forest reserves Governor Richards says | what | Asked his opinion on the Wabash strike | of the process known as government by | 1t | object lessons to | | tavorable to | dent, ards' interview, as published in the Post 1s a caustic critfels Roose- velt's policy in wal from eatry of h of the governor denominates the best in that sta d placing the same forest reser This, the governor sta means restric- tion of immigration and if continued would keep’ Wyoming and other etate utlarly situated in the class of arid states. The governor then gave utterance to inequivocal statement “Unless President Roosevelt makes a sudden and radical change in his policy it is practically certain that an antagonistic delegation will go from Wyoming and very probably from other ctates of the wes: | where forestration is a paramount question as it concerns water supply, the most im- portant question with which we have to deal Along the lines of his position regarding what Tan I We favor the preservation of the for- | ests, but the object, as we see it. and (he desire to be accomplished is to preserve the trees on the mountain sides and tops, | 50 a8 to protect our water supply. Water is | we need. We cannot support a policy which sets apart great areas of Jand, the only land suitable for settlement, so that eastern pleasure seekers may have a | place to hunt and fish and camp out for & season. We are desirous of the preserva- tion of people, not animals. We wish to | depart from the arid class and maks | of Wyoming one of the foremost states in agriculture through the operation of the irrigation law, as it is possible to do. We want to raise agricultural products, not wolves, bear and other game for the pur- pose of making Wyoming a game preserve for eastern sportsmen.” | | | President Comes Back. | The correspondent in conjunction with | the interview had with Governor Richards | states in a very modest way that the gov. | ernor was ome of those responsible for | President Roosevelt's attitude on the frri- | gation measure. When Rocsevelt made his tour of the west Governor Richards was with him for ten days and according to the correspondent, he impressed upon Mr, Réosevelt's mind the necessity of radical utterances in favor of a natfonal irriga- tion law and that in consequence of Gov- ernor Richards’ pronounced views on irri- gation the president used a great many ot the Wyoming governor's ideas in compiling | his message to congress. When Representative Mondell was asked today whether Governor Richards reflected he spntiment of his state when he stated hat Wyoming would not send a delegation favorable to President Roosevelt to the next national republican convention, Mr. Mon- dell said: “I do not consider myself commissioned to speak for the republicans of Wyoming relative to their choice of a candidate for the presidency in 1904, but the last state | convention of the party, held in July last, | after expressions of gratitude to President | Roosevelt for his interest in western af- | faire and his assistance in the passage of | the national irrigation act, said: ‘We look | forward with confidence and satisfaction to | his nomination and election ja 1904 This | is the last official declaration of the repub- | licans of Wyoming and until the party | | officially declares a change of mind I am bound 1o believe that they will adhere to | their declaration. My personal opinion s | that the president has gained rather than | | | | | lost in strength with our people since that time. I cannot see how it could well be | otherwise in view of the intersst he has taken in metters of importance 1o our peo- ple and the splendid recognition our state | has had at his hands In the matter of ap- pointments. “I have not been in eympathy with some teatures of the policy which has been pur- | sued with regard to the establishment and | maintenance of forest reserves, and have 80 expressed myself on numerous occasions, | though I am heartily in sympathy with a conservative forest reserve policy. Opposes Game Preserv | | “But the objectionable features are cer- | inly not chargeable to President Roose- velt, though I am aware that certain par- ties have been inclined to defend rather | drastic action with regard to reserves with the claim that they were following the president’s policy. In the wmatter of cre- atlon of game preserves in forest reserves I have been nppuf!d to the legislation sug- gested and some ten days ago I made a minority report adverse to a bill which had passed the senate and was before the house committee on public lands. In so doing I did not consider, however, that I was op- posing the president's policy or, as I stated In the report, do not beliave the president advised or contemplated the leg- islation which was urged and which those attempted to bolster up by | asser:ing that it was in line with the pres. ident's recommendations. “I have great confidence in W. A. Rich- ards, comi loner of the land office, and believe that as far as his views are carrled out In regard to forest reserves there will | be no reasonable ground for complaint rel- | ive thereto. The wild-eyed game pre- serve ideas that some extrerists are urg- ing and which would nullify state game laws In the territory affected does mot, in my qpinion, reflect the views of the presi- and there is little likelthood of the proposed measures being enacted into law.” Assistant Atiorney General Vandevanter, in common with citizens of Wyoming gen- erally at the capital, read the statement ac- credited to Governor DeForest Richards as printed in & special to the eastern press this morning from Cheyenne Vandeventer Not Talkin, “In view of the fact that I am about to sever my conmection with the Interior de- partment to enter upon & judicial’career on the Unite} Sates circult bemch, I do not belleve it would be seemly for me to tack will be patroled. Another precaution is the strengthening of the armed guards on the express and mail traios betweea Cheyeane and Ogden. | talk upon this rather startling statemesat made by Governor DeForrest Richards of our state. I will take the oath and assume (Contisued on P'fl-l.h age.) | eade hotel on Douglas street | avenue market | will be finiehed April 1 | gineer Rosewater stated that | streets, | portion met {to the mayor for his CONDITION dF THE WEATHER Rain 1g Forecast for Nebrask in_North Por ath. Falr Portion Tuesday Rain We Temperature at Omaha Vesterday: Homr, L Dex. » . » » » » » » " m “ " " ™. m m o B9 . 58 57 55 ». 84 FIRE TAKES ARCADE HOTEL ALl the Guests Es- of Them in S0 Far as Known Night Robe this morning the Ar- Shortly af ' between Thir tr was well alight teenth and Fourteenth caugh in a mysterious fashion and by h all asleep and apparently wi of savi The but hou g 1t guests were at the time, all so far as is known managed (o escape to the street, though some were in their clothes nigh This Is the second mysterious fire within a week at the a minor blaze among some Arcade whi stored mattresses and was ex tinguished without difiiculty the last being but b originated in a [ TEMPORARY MARKET STALLS City Council Provides Place for the Truck Farmers Pending Mar- ket House Completion. Arrangements were made by the general council committes yesterday afternoon to provide a place for temporary market stalls pending the completion of the new Capitol house. It was stated that the roof is already on the structure and it Authority given tonight for the re-employment of Marketmaster Gerke and the three sides of the square bounded by Fifteenth street, Capitol avenue and Fourteenth street named as the location of the market gard wagons for the present. No fees will be collected for this privilege. The truck farmers have been demanding temporary stalls for several weeks, as they are be- gioning to do a street business again In connection with this matter City En- the curbing should be set back from twenty-four feet to ten feet from the lot line on Capitol avenue between Thirteenth ard Fourteenth where the market house stands | in the middle of the thoroughfare, in order | that adequate wagon room may be pro- | vided. This will necessitate additional pav- ing and the whole work will $1,300. Estimates will submitted. Former Mayor George concerning his damage city for a broken leg. He exposed the limb for the inspection of the councilmen and stated that when the plaster cast was removed a weck ago the bone was found united by only a fibrous growth, there being no bone connection. Health Commissioner Ralph made an examination before the committee and substantiated the asser- tions. Mr. Bemis has started a suit for $20,000 against the city, but offers to com- promise for $10,000. He plainly had the sympathy of the councilmen yesterday afternoon, and they assured him cost about be prepared and P. Bemis appeared claim against tlement as soon as formal notices concern- ing the sult are served on the owners ot the sign that blew down and caused the accident, and other details arranged. Michael E. Danlels, a motorman who slipped and fell on the fce at Ames ave- nue and Thirty-sixth street and broke his right wrist, January 8, urged his claim for $150. The committee vo'ed to give $100, which he accepted. The petition of the residents along Spald- Ing street between Twenty-seventh and the Belt line tracks, to have the old wooden blocks removed In order that the six-inch concrete foundation may present a better road, was disposed of by unofefally re- questing the residents to tear up the timber paving themselves. WRANGLE OVER RESOLUTION Councilman Karr Defénd » Support of the Open Door Electrio Power Ordinance, Resolved, That the North Omaha Tm- rovement club indorse the action of our onorable mayor, F. E. Moores for vetoing city ordinance No. i2%, known as the “opon door” electric power ordinance; and be it turther Resolved, That this club respeetfully ask our honorable city councilman to favor the Andrew Rosewater ordinance and pass the Bam.e 80 as to allow the citizens to by their votes that they want cheap power in the eity of Omaha. The above resolution, offered by J. Y. Cralg, at the meeting of the North Omaha Improvement club Monday evening, caused @ very lively debate between that ent. Councilman Karr took exceptions to the resolution In that it eulogized the d condemned the councilmen at the same time. He favored that portion of the res- olution requiring him to work for the A drew Rosewater ordinance, but the firy with his dissent. While ad- dressing the club he amended the resolu- tion in accordance with his views, immediately brought for'h a lively dis- cussion from Mr. Crsig’s side of the hall In defending his measure Mr. Cralg stated that all he desired was cheaper power In Omaha and the privilege of voting for it. | He also desired to show his appreciation “open | vetolng the door” ordinance Mr. Johnson came to the rescue by stat- ing that there still remained severpl weeks | tor action and there was no special need for the adoption of the resolution at this meeting. It was consequently laid over tor one week The ladies in North Omabe will meet next Thursday evening for the purpose of pertecting an auxiliary organization. | Movements of Ocean Vessels March 9. At New York—Arrived—-Umbria, from Liverpool; Patricia, from Hamburg; La Bretagne, f Havre; Minnehaha, from London. ' Bailed—Minneapolis. for London At Glasgow—Arrived—Sardinian, from Portland At Liverpool—Arrived—Etruria, from New York At Naples—Arrived—Perugia. from New Salled—Hesperia, for New York At Bremen—8a ~Grosser Kurfurst, for New York At The Lizard—Passed--Kroonland, from New York, for Ant At Plymouth trom Hamburg, for New York At Southampton—Salled—Grosser Kur- furst, from Bremen, via Ponta del Gada, ew York -Pretorta. Arrived—Furneselz, from New At Penarth—Sa Royal werp, for San Franciseo At Yokohama—Arrived—Indrasamha, trom Portland, Ore., for Hong Kong., etc. INGLE COPY THREE CENTS will ba | re' | the | they | | would negotiate toward a satisfactory set- him | gentle- | | man and Councilmen Karr, who was pres- mayor | which | BARTLEY IS MISSIN | Sergeant-at-Arms of House Fails to Reac | Ex-Treasurer with a Subpoena. | INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS WITHOUT Hin | | Former Treasurer Hill Says He Tarne Over No Personal Obligations. CLANCEY'S TESTIMONY Says He Never S8aw the “UOigar Box" an( Does Not Believe Savage Did. IS A SURPRISI E JUDGE HOLCOMB TELLS WHAT HE SAW INI" House Puts In Night Session on Rev Bill and Re County Assessorship Clan enue ns the { BARTLEY could not b sergeant-at-arms sc poena. Rartley fa be In. Former Treasurer Hill tled with Bartley in fuil versonal obligations. _iobert former secretary of Governc £ saw ‘cigar box.” Does not be 11d. Judge Hoicomb says he origi term ' “cigar box." Contained e 's when he saw it, by posit nsiders new revenue bill in com the whole. Section providing asseseor (5 adopted delegation works for p of music bullc iniversity M sends in hi s to the bill providing for to commissioner of publl buildings. SENATE declines to appropriate & build Mrs. Boweer's sod house at Louls exposition. found whe bt him with n | LANCASTER appropriation tory for of « st (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 9. {Specfal Telegram.) ~The special committee appointed by Speaker Mockett from the house as the ro- | sult of a resolution by Knox of Buffalo to investigate the circumstances surrounding the so-called cigar box, said to contain 1 O U's and other forms of securities rep reseating portions of the $i45,000 of state funds embezzled by Bartley while stae treasurer, began its work tonight by taking testimon f three wit The nig! sessions of the house on the revenue bill, with its fifty amendments 80 began tonight. This strenuous pace fs to continue until the revenue bill is dis- posed of and some result is reached in the Bartley case. The members composing this investigat- ing committee are Representatives Knox of Buffalo, chairman; Nelson and Kennedy of Douglas, Ribble of Saline and Ferrar * of Hall. The witnesses who testified tonight were former State Treasurer Hill, who was Bart- ley's immediate predecessor; R. J. Clancey, who was private secretary to former Gov- ernor Savage, and Judge Holeomb of the supreme court, governor from January 3, 1805, until January, 1899, serving his first term as Bartley rved his last state treasurer. Nelson and Kennedy, the lawyers of the committee, did most of the questioning, although Chajrman Knox occasionally in- terrogated a witness. The nature of the evidence tonight was not such as to lead to any immediate unearthing of tho ctzar box, which one of the witnesses deelazed to be a mere myth or legend. The ommit- tee has other witnesses, howevasr, to ex- amine. It is very anxious to locate ernor Savage to request his prese | wire. This anxiety is based largely uion the assumption that the former exccuiive will bo able to make some pertint dis- closures, inasmuch as ho gave reason for | such a theory when he made publis a iet- ter some time last year saying that at t end of his oficial term he would fell where this mysterious receptacle was and gave the general impression that its contens would be made known. Hill the First Witnes, Ex-Treasurer Hill wa He sald “I turned over to Mr. Bartleyat the end of my term securities for all moneys in my possession. I told him in what banis I had funds deposited. 1 gave ceriificatos of deposit in settlement with Bartley, as checks were not allowed. Bartley objacted to accepting the certificates of one 0. two | banks and the rest he accepted without | hesitation. As was customary in 1% se of incoming treasurers, Mr. Bartlsy chcse two bankers to aid him in going over his predecessor's accounts. He chose Luther Drake and Mr. Baleh of Omaha. Every- | thing was verified and Bartley had ample | epportunity to throw out anything he ob- | sected to. ANl the certificates of deposit which Bartley accepted as cash lacer wers paid except those from the Capital Na- tional bank, which falled. Nelther my bondsmen nor I made good any of these losses. 1 turned over no personal securi- | ties. 1 had not loaned money to any indl- vidual or had any evidences of any personal | indebtedness. I settled In full with Bart- | ley according to the auditor's statement | about Japuary 14, 1883. In the suit that | was later brought against me and my bondsmen the question w: ralsed as to | whether I cught not to have pald over in | cash. This™wss Impoesible, and my settie- ment was verified by the decision of the supreme court. I know of no one Who got | money personally trom Bartley while treas- urer. Have bad no dealings with him my- selt.” « Mr. Clancey was the next witness. Mr | Clancey was subpoenaed by the sergeant-at- arms of the house in the city this afte noon. His testimony came somewhat as a surprise, since, owing to his intimate re- lations as private secretary to Governor Savage, who declared that he knew and would tell of that mysterious cigar box, it was naturally supposed be would be able to give the committee some light that would | be valuable to it, but Mr. Clancey sald he | knew nothing. He made this statement: | “I never saw the cigar box nor its con- | tents. Don’t know anything about 1t ex- cept what I have read in the newspapers. Never talked of it with Governor Savage except In an incidental way, and look upon it as a myth or legend.” The most surprising part of Clascey's | testimony wi his answer to the questions whether or not he knew anything of that tamous letter which Savage caused to be published in which he empbatically stated that at the end of his oficiul term he would disclose the whereabouts if mot the pon- tents of this box. Clancey sald, i fa that he believed Savage did not know any- thing about this box and, moreover, that he didn't mean what be said in that letter | that he thought the governor was merely joking when he wrote, or had the letter written, and did not himself really believe iously in the actual existence of any eigar box only as & mythical, mysterious some- {thine. vague sad illusive, valuable only the first witncs: neey's Opinion of Sava